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Ephialtes

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incubusnoun(mediaeval folklore) An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep.
idolnounA cultural icon, or especially popular person.
ikelosnounIn Ovid's Metamorphoses, one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep).
erebusnoun(Greek mythology) The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld.
cephalusnoun(Greek mythology) An ancient Greek lover of Procris who accidentally slew her as she spied upon him.
phobetornounIn Ovid's Metamorphoses, one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep).
erebosnoun(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Erebus. [(Greek mythology) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.]
eacusnounAlternative form of Aeacus. [(Greek mythology) A king of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf, one of the three judges in Hades.]
oneiroinoun(Greek mythology) The gods and personifications of dreams; the sons of Hypnos and Pasithea, or Nyx and Erebus.
empusanoun(Greek mythology) A monster sent by (and sometimes the progeny of) the goddess Hecate; when imagined as the first or only empusa, or as a species of monster.
epoptnounAn initiate in the Eleusinian Mysteries; one who has attended the epopteia.
eumenidesnoun(Greek mythology) The Erinyes.
eidolonnounA phantom; a ghost or an elusive entity.
ascalaphusnoun(Greek mythology) The orchardist of Hades, changed into a screech-owl by Demeter for telling Hades that Persephone had eaten pomegranate seeds
idolastrenoun(obsolete) An idolater.
hypnalisnoun(mediaeval folklore) legendary asp said to kill people by making them go in an endless sleep or by attacking them in their sleep.
empousanoun(Greek mythology) Alternative form of empusa. [(Greek mythology) In Ancient Greek mythology, a kind of spectre sent by Hecate to guard roads and devour travellers.]
night hagnoun(folklore) a demon that gives rise to sleep paralysis
apepnoun(Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Apophis. [(Egyptian mythology) An evil snake-god who tries to devour the sun every night.]
abaddonnounThe destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; Apollyon;

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